Mosaic Comics

Is there such a thing as a negative emotion?  It seems like a question with a simple enough answer.  Obviously emotions like rage, greed, and fear are negative while other emotions like hope, compassion, and love are positive, right?  After all, Green Lantern gives us characters who fully embody these individual emotions, so all we have to do to learn the truth is look at them.  We can see, for example, what rage does to the Red Lanterns.  Rage is so all-consuming that once a red ring lands on your finger, its power saturates your body, flowing through your veins.  The ring stops your heart and replaces it, meaning that if you ever took the ring off, you’d die moments later because your heart no longer works.  It forces intense rage to be at the core of your being forever, cursing you with power and fury, and an inability to ever be anything else.  And as the Red Lantern Corps grew, they were presented as a pack of vicious animals, tearing apart a...

Hey everybody, it’s time to take a look at the Dark Crisis Green Lantern one-shot.  While this is a Dark Crisis tie-in, it’s completely self-contained, and you can read this issue without having to worry about any spoilers for Dark Crisis.  In fact, you don’t actually have to know what Dark Crisis even is.  So let’s jump in. Dark Crisis: Worlds Without A Justice League: Green Lantern #1, written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, with art by Fernando Blanco, colors by Jordie Bellaire, and letters by Troy Peteri. The basic premise is that when the Justice League supposedly died, each member was actually sealed inside of their own custom fantasy world, designed to give each of them their ideal happy lives, while unknowingly becoming a resource to be used by the main villain of Dark Crisis. In the case of John Stewart, we see him living a peaceful, quiet life on a farm with his mother and younger sister, while the planet is defended by a Green Lantern Corps consisting of a fe...

Jennifer Walters has a problem.  Her life hasn’t been the same since she got injured and needed an emergency blood transfusion from her cousin, Bruce Banner, the Incredible Hulk.  It saved her life, but it also changed her.  Jen can transform into her own Hulk form, affectionately called the She-Hulk.  But unlike her cousin, who constantly struggles against the beast within, Jennifer’s conscious mind remains in full control of her Hulk form.  And on the surface, this seems like a great setup.  She’s an amazonian superhero, exuding strength and confidence, in complete control…all the positives of being a Hulk, with none of the negatives. At least on the surface. Jennifer’s biggest struggle is still against herself.  No matter how she tries to dress it up or ignore it, there’s no getting away from the fact that she can turn into someone who she truly doesn’t want to be, someone who she hates identifying herself as and who’s face she never wants to see ...